One day technical site visit to the Civil Engineering students

Civil Engineering Department of Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of technology and management in association with ISTE student chapter organized a One day technical site visit to the Civil Engineering students on 10^thNovember 2022. On the first visit students and faculty members visited Dakshina Kannada Nirmithi Kendra,  Speaking on the site visit Er. Rajendra Kalbhavi, Project Director gave great insights into the importance of low cost effective options available for building & constructions. In his address, he highlighted there is lot happening in the field of innovative construction, enormous changes are taking place especially in the Research and Development part of it. The alternative, environment friendly building materials and technologies developed by various research institutes to bridge the Lab to Land” gaps.

Second site visit, Applied mechanics and Hydraulics lab of NITK Surathkal, where reaserch scholars demonstrated the wave flume, venture flume and various research projects undergone and undergoing in the field of Hydraulics and Marine structures.  Students also visited GIS and GPS lab of NITK and able to get the knowledge of GIS mapping and software’s available in the GIS database.

Third Visit was in Sristi ventures, Padubidri where students able to get the knowledge of Ecowall as an modern construction technology used in construction technology used in construction of RCC walls and slabs for buildings. It is a prefabricated single pan to 10 stories economically.Panels, are factory produced constituting of central core of EPS in a wave form, which mainly performs as thermal barrier.

Dr. sandeep J Nayak, Head Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty members Ms. Deepika B V, Mr. Sunil Haldankar, Mr. madhusoodhana Rao, Mr. Rosha Kotian & Mr. Jayaram nayak along with 40 students participated in this Knowlgedge enrich technical site visit.